670: DAVID YEAGER | How to Motivate Your Teens

The Rachel Hollis Podcast

Rachel Hollis

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode of The Rachel Hollis Podcast, Rachel speaks with David Yeager, a developmental psychology professor at UT Austin, about his new book "10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People". They explore societal narratives about adolescence, the developmental importance of seeking status and respect, and effective communication strategies for parents. David shares practical tools for fostering healthy and open communication with teenagers, emphasizing long-term relationship building over immediate disciplinary action. Get the Start Today Journal - https://starttoday.com/products/start-today-journal 00:00 Introduction: Challenging Youth Stereotypes 01:36 Meet the Expert: David Yeager 03:22 Parenting Teenagers: Building Trust 07:09 Navigating Teen Social Dynamics 13:17 Effective Communication Strategies 20:54 The Truth Campaign: A Case Study 28:06 Impact of Anti-Smoking Campaigns 29:04 Introduction to Start Today Journal 30:16 Discussing the Book: 10 to 25 31:34 Understanding Teen Motivation 39:41 Aligning Values with Behavior 44:33 Navigating Educational Choices 53:25 Concluding Thoughts and Resources Have a question you want Rach to answer? An idea for a podcast episode?? Call the podcast hotline and leave a voicemail! Call (737) 400-4626 Sign up for Rachel’s weekly email: https://msrachelhollis.com/insider/ Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelHollisMotivation/videos Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MsRachelHollis/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices.

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0:00.0	When young people don't do what we think is in their logical long-term best interest,
0:05.0	then we just think they're idiots.
0:07.0	Yeah.
0:08.0	They're just selfish, woke, entitled idiots who can't do anything.
0:12.0	Is the societal narrative these days?
0:14.2	It's just impossible to me to imagine
0:16.5	that an entire developmental stage
0:19.0	was designed with hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to be like so incompetent that it
0:25.5	can't survive. Yeah. Right? And like what's happening in hundreds of thousands of
0:29.9	years ago in the Savannah right so children are taken care of by parents for safety reasons, right? But at some point, you have to contribute to the group.
0:40.0	If you're 35 and doing nothing in your roving band, they're just leave you behind.
0:46.0	Yeah. Because like, we're not going to keep hunting lions for you, you know, and building a house for you where you're bringing nothing to the table.
0:52.0	You got to contribute
0:53.4	something. And so you could think of adolescence as discovering what it is you're going to
0:58.3	contribute to show that you bring value to the group.
1:11.0	Hi, I'm Rachel, and in this show, we talk about everything. Life and work, health and healing, relationships with others and with
1:16.6	ourselves. These are stories for the seekers. These are conversations for the curious. This is the Rachel Hollis podcast. Before I ask you 10,000 questions, let's start with who you are and what you do.
1:41.0	Yes. That will set the stage for why we're going to talk about all the things that we are.
1:45.7	I'm David Yeager.
1:46.8	I'm a developmental psychology professor at UT Austin,
1:50.5	former teacher, middle school, basketball coach, etc.
1:54.0	I focus a lot on adolescents and that's extended from start of puberty at 10 to mid to late 20s.
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